He has produced albums by Stan Ridgway, Oingo Boingo, Sandra Bernhard, My Morning Jacket, Counting Crows, The Shins, Augie March, Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear, Kurt Elling, Big Talk.

Recently he has recorded a new Quartet West album with Charlie Haden, and also works with vocalist Kurt Elling, whose album Dedicated To You, featuring Watts, won a Grammy in 2010 for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

Since 1995, Elling has collaborated with pianist, composer, and arranger Laurence Hobgood, leading a quartet that regularly tours the world.

Elling has performed and recorded with David Amram, Bob Belden, Joanne Brackeen, Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Corgan, Orbert Davis, George Freeman, Buddy Guy, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Randy Bachman, Bob Mintzer, Rex Richardson, and Bob Sheppard.

Elling Borgersrud has stood for national election as a minor political candidate for the Red Electoral Alliance.

Elling has lived with his mother for his entire life, and when his mother dies, the authorities take him from the apartment where he has always lived and send him to an institution.

Elling has been released in several languages and has also received one Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

On January 31, 2010, Elling won his first Grammy Award in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Album for the album Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman on the Concord Jazz label.

Elling often leads the Down Beat critics poll, and he was awarded the Prix Billie Holiday from the Académie du Jazz.

Growing up, Elling sang in the classical style, learning counterpoint from the motets of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Elling became known in Chicago from his weekly gigs at the Green Mill Jazz Club, where he first met pianist Laurence Hobgood through saxophonist Ed Petersen

In college, Elling sang in the 70-voice Gustavus Choir, an a cappella choir that performed works from a variety of different composers, allowing him to hone his technical skills.

After graduating from Gustavus Adolphus in 1989, Elling enrolled in graduate school at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he studied for his master's degree in philosophy of religion.

P ( 1974 ), John Cale ( 1978 ), Kim Wilde ( 1984 ), U2 ( 1990 ), Andrew Lloyd Webber ( 1993 ), Liz Phair ( 1993 ), Kurt Elling ( 1995 ), Susan McKeown ( 1995 ), Mark St. John Ellis as Elijah's Mantle ( 1995 ), Old 97's ( 1997 ), The Changelings ( 1997 ), The Residents ( 1998 ), Enrique Bunbury ( 1998 ), Chayanne ( 1999 ), Patti Smith ( 2000 ), Killing Miranda ( 2001 ), Gary Jules ' " Pills " ( 2001 ), The Booda Velvets ( 2001 ), Xandria ( 2007 ), Pete Doherty ( 2009 ), Os Pontos Negros ( 2009 ), 9GOATS BLACK OUT ( 2009 ), Justin Vivian Bond ( 2011 ), Regina Spektor and Kaya ( Japanese musician ) ( 2012 ).

* Elling also contributed vocals to his longtime collaborator Laurence Hobgood's three albums, Left to My Own Devices ( 2000 ), Crazy World ( 2005 ) and When the Heart Dances ( 2009 )

* 1967 – Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist

* Kurt Elling – jazz musician

* Bass Jazz Vocal Album – Kurt Elling “ Nightmoves ”

#" The More I Have You " ( Kurt Elling ) – 3: 38

#" Man in the Air " ( Laurence Hobgood, Elling ) – 5: 32

* Kurt Elling – vocals

* Kurt Elling – producer

Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel Brødre i blodet (" Blood brothers ", 1996 ), one of a series of four featuring the Elling character – the others are Utsikt til paradiset (" A view of paradise ", 1993 ), Fugledansen (" The bird dance ", 1995 ), and Elsk meg i morgen (" Love me tomorrow ", 1999 ).

Bautahaugen was founded in 1902, by local trader Erik J. Bergsrud ( 1848 – 1915 ) and farmer Elling Goplerud ( 1864 – 1932 ).

In 2007 and 2012, Circumstantial Productions published two editions of Lyrics: Kurt Elling, collections of Elling's vocalese lyrics, edited by Richard Connolly.

Close Your Eyes was followed several years later by The Messenger ( 1997 ), with Elling releasing a total of seven albums for the Blue Note label.

At Rockford Lutheran High School, in Rockford, IL, Elling continued to sing in the choir: " When it was undeniably uncool and geeky and all that, to be in the choir, I did it anyway, because it was reliably beautiful, and it was rewarding, and it gave me gifts of experience and friendships.

* Producer of The Year " 2007-The Shins, Kurt Elling

Brødre i blodet (" Blood brothers ") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001.

This led to the creation of his own band ( the Paul Wertico Trio ) and collaborations with jazz notables such as Larry Coryell, Kurt Elling and Jeff Berlin.

** Elling Eielsen, Norwegian Lutheran leader ( b. 1804 )

* 1903: A Norwegian, Ægidius Elling, was able to build the first gas turbine that was able to produce more power than needed to run its own components, which was considered an achievement in a time when knowledge about aerodynamics was limited.

The wooden lodge where Barentsz ' crew sheltered was found undisturbed by Norwegian seal hunter Elling Carlsen in 1871.

In October 2011 The Claudia Quintet, with guest vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann, released an album on Cuneiform Records of Patchen's poetry set to music written by Claudia leader John Hollenbeck.

In 2011, Grammy-winning, Chicago based jazz singer Kurt Elling covered " Steppin ' Out " on his album The Gate.

Romanticism style dominated Norwegian music " until well into the 20th century, whether expressed through modifications to the national Romantic idiom of Grieg or through a more classical / international line " like Catharinus Elling or Halfdan Cleve.

Other performers known for vocalese include Bob Dorough, Giacomo Gates, Kurt Elling, Al Jarreau, Mark Murphy, Roger Miller, New York Voices, and The Manhattan Transfer, whose Grammy-winning version of Weather Report's " Birdland " featured lyrics by Jon Hendricks.

Key contributors of technical achievements that pushed the practical application of turbomachinery forward include: Denis Papin, Kernelien Le Demour, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, John Smeaton, Dr. A. C. E. Rateau, John Barber, Alexander Sablukov, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, Ægidius Elling, Sanford Alexander Moss, Willis Carrier, Adolf Busemann, Hermann Schlichting, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain.

* Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling builds the first gas turbine to generate power, using a centrifugal compressor.

In 2006, a well-received 13-episode Legends of Jazz television series hosted by Lewis was broadcast on public TV nationwide and featured live performances by a variety of jazz artists including Larry Gray, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Joey Defrancesco, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Kurt Elling, Benny Golson, Pat Metheny and Tony Bennett.

* July 26-Ægidius Elling ( died 1949 ), Norwegian gas turbine pioneer.

* May 27-Ægidius Elling ( born 1861 ), Norwegian gas turbine pioneer.

Kurt Elling ( born November 2, 1967 ) is an American jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist and vocalese performer.